About
I am Tuna, a student from Turkey. Most of my free time goes somewhere below the application layer, which is a long way of saying I would rather read a kernel than a changelog.
It started with a simple question: what actually happens when the machine runs my code? Reading about it was never quite enough, and I was never comfortable trusting layers I could not see into. So I kept going down a level, then another, until there was nothing under me but the hardware. That is roughly how I ended up writing an operating system instead of a landing page.
What I build
Right now most of my time goes to Tunix, a Unix like system I am building from scratch, and to the Türk OSdev Topluluğu, the Turkish OS development community I founded. Decent low level material is hard enough to find in English. In Turkish it barely exists, and the community is my attempt to fix that.
Before Tunix there was narcOs, a 64 bit x86 hobby OS with its own boot path, GUI, storage and networking. Between kernel sessions I build smaller things: termi, a modal terminal editor written in Rust, ratfetch, and a handful of small C utilities that exist mostly because I wanted to know if I could.
On privacy
My bio says privacy is not a crime and I mean that literally. Privacy is a right, not a premium feature you unlock, and it should be the default instead of something you have to go and configure. That belief keeps turning into code: privatebin, a zero knowledge paste platform, cointrack, a Bitcoin privacy analyzer, and emojiseed, which encodes BIP39 style mnemonics as emojis.
There is an honest second reason too. Cryptography is genuinely fun. Zero knowledge systems, key derivation and the Bitcoin side of things are some of the most interesting problems I have run into, and privacy tools happen to sit right on top of them.
Away from the keyboard
I read a lot. Some of it is technical, most of it is not, and the non technical half is usually the part that ends up changing how I think about the technical half.
Stack
- C
- Rust
- Assembly
- C++
- Python
- TypeScript
- Next.js
- React
- Tailwind CSS
- MongoDB
- Bash
- Linux
- Git